Nursing-bottle protector



(No Model.)

F. G; PRESNELL.

NURSING BOTTLE PROTECTOR.

- No. 549,394. Patented Nov.5,1895.

' WITNESSES.

ANDREW BGRAHAM, PHOTO-THO. WASHINGTON. D.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK c. PRESNELL, or OHILLIOOTHE, onio;

NU RSlNG-BOTTLE PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 549,394, dated November 5, 1895.

Application filed March 1 3 1 8 9 5.

T at whom it may concern:

Be'it known that I, FRANK G. PREsNELL, of Ohillicothe, in the county of Ross and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nursing-Bottle Protectors, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a protector espea cially adaptedfor use in connection with nursing-bottles; and it has for its object to provide a jacket of a yielding material which may be expeditiously and conveniently placed upon a nursing-bottle to surround the body thereof and which may likewise be as readily removed, but wherein when the protector is placed upon the bottle it will remain in position thereon, thereby preventing the bottle from being broken by the body contacting with any hard object.

A further object of the invention is to construct the aforesaid protector in an exceedingly simple, durable, and economic manner.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth,and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the nursingbottle having the protector applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the protector; and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section through the same, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out the invention the protector is constructed of rubber or an equivalent yielding or elastic material and in diameter and general contour is a trifle smaller than that portion of the bottle A the protector is adapted to receive. The protector is consequently made somewhat in the nature of a sleeve, and is preferably given a tapering form, being wider at the top, and from top to bottom it is provided with horizontal corrugations or ribs 10, and it may here be remarked that the entire protector is designated by the reference letter A.

Usually and preferably the exterior ribs or Serial No. 541,575. (No model.)

exterior peaks of the corrugations are made thicker or stronger than the exterior troughsections, or sections between the exterior peaks or ribs, and preferably in each trough or in any predetermined number of them one or more openings or apertures 11 are made in order to prevent suction when the protector is to be removed from a bottle.

7 At the upper or wider end of the protector a bead 12 is produced, of sufficient diameter to extend horizontally inward and in like direction outward from the body of the protector, and although the bottom of the protector may be entirely closed, if desired, it is preferably provided with an opening 13 in said bottom, which is rendered of less diameter than the bottom proper by forming on the latter an inwardly-extending marginal flange 14, against which the bottom of the bottle A may rest.

In applying the protector the bottle is simply forced therein until the bottom of the bottle is at the bottom of the protector.

The corrugations in the protector have the dual functions of providing elastic contactpoints for engagement with any object that would otherwise be struck by the body of the bottle, and said corrugations furthermore serve to permit a bellows-like action on the part of the protector and cause the protector to hug the bottle more closely than would otherwise be the case.

It will be understood that the protector may be made as long or as short as may be found desirable.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1 l. A protector for nursing and other bottles, the same consisting of a sleeve made of an elastic material, provided with horizontal corrugations and having vent openings in the exterior channeled portions of the said corru 'atio s tantially as shown and destruct. d of rubber and having a taperingshape, the said sleeve being provided with horizontal corrugations and a bead at its widest end, the sleeve being also provided with vent openings in the exterior channeled port-ions of the corrugated surface, as and for the purpose specified.

A protector for bottles, especially designed for nursing bottles, the same consisting of a rubber sleeve of tapering shape having horizontally formed corrugations, and a bead at its upper end, the said sleeve being further provided with vent apertures in its corrugated surface, and an opening in the bottom defined by a marginal flange projected in- 

